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  2. Sing Sing - Wikipedia

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    Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum-security prison [2] ... High-profile executions in Sing Sing's electric chair, nicknamed "Old Sparky", ...

  3. List of people executed in New York - Wikipedia

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    1963 marked the last execution in New York State. Some executions recorded during the 17th and 18th centuries do not indicate the name(s) of the executed and therefore are not included. Regarding electrocutions, which comprise a large percentage of the executions: [1] 55 people (54 men and 1 woman) were electrocuted at Auburn Correctional Facility

  4. Ruth Snyder - Wikipedia

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    May Ruth Brown met Albert Edward Snyder (né Schneider) in 1915 in New York City, when she was 20 years old and he was a 33-year-old artist. The couple had little in common; Brown, who went by her middle name of Ruth to most people and was known as "Tommy" to close friends, was described as vivacious and gregarious, while Snyder was described as quiet and reserved and very much a "homebody".

  5. Eddie Lee Mays - Wikipedia

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    Mays would become the last person to be executed by "Old Sparky", New York state's electric chair at Sing Sing prison. The state electrician was Dow Hover . The electric chair had been the sole method of execution in the state since 1890 (hanging had been abolished in 1888).

  6. JJ Velazquez on Finding Freedom, From Sing Sing to ... - AOL

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    Velazquez’s work, most of which he laid the foundation for while incarcerated in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, ... That, in September alone, saw five people executed by their states. With 2 ...

  7. Old Sparky - Wikipedia

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    From 1914, all executions in New York state were conducted at Sing Sing prison using "Old Sparky". After a series of escapes from death row, the Death House at Sing Sing was built in 1920 and began executions in 1922. It was a prison within the Sing Sing prison.

  8. Killer who executed cop over pair of trendy sunglasses ... - AOL

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    Walker, 67, was released on parole from Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining after spending 40 years behind bars for first-degree murder, according to state Department of Corrections records.

  9. Hans Schmidt (priest) - Wikipedia

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    I would rather die today than tomorrow." He was sent to Sing Sing Prison to await execution. [26] Schmidt's defense team filed an appeal shortly after his sentence, which postponed his execution for at least a year while it worked its way through the courts. [27] In December 1914, Schmidt admitted that he feigned insanity during his trials.